National Health Act, 2003 (Act No. 61 of 2003)RegulationsRegulations Regarding the Rendering of Forensic Pathology Service, 20189. Storage of body |
| (1) | The person in charge of a designated facility must ensure that a refrigerated facility, maintained at a set temperature, is used to store all bodies. |
| (2) | A body must at the time of collection by the Service be in a closed sealable bag made for that purpose. |
| (3) | The body must, upon admission to the Service Facility be labelled with a registration number. |
| (4) | The person in charge of a designated facility must ensure that there is efficient refrigeration of bodies at all times. |
| (5) | The person in charge of a designated facility must set up control measures to ensure that only authorized persons have access to bodies, to documents related to bodies, to areas where post mortem examinations are performed and to the storage unit in which bodies are kept. |
| (6) | The official authorised to admit or remove a body to a facility must record any removal of a body in an incident log, including date, time and purpose of such removal and where available, its identity. |